{"id":106,"date":"2015-05-26T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2016-05-10T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T17:56:58","slug":"norman-turrill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/norman-turrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Turrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/files\/2015\/05\/Turill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-131\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/files\/2015\/05\/Turill-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Turill\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2096\/files\/2015\/05\/Turill-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2096\/files\/2015\/05\/Turill.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the first men to join the League of Women Voters, Turrill\u00a0provides a unique perspective into the organization&#8217;s political work. Born in Hawthorne, California and raised Seattle Washington, Turrill went to Africa with the Peace Corps and then pursued a career as a computer scientist. His involvement with the antiwar movement blossomed into a commitment to civic and political activism, with a particular focus on political reform. As a member of the state board of Common Cause, Turrill worked to make government more transparent through sunshine laws and other reforms. The League of Women Voters&#8217; participation in these campaigns impressed him, and he soon brought his computer science expertise to the League as a member and as Chair of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Turrill\u2019s family life illuminates the changing economy and gender dynamics that characterized the Baby Boom generation. Shortly after he\u00a0met met his wife in 1969, he moved with her to the Midwest where she went to attend medical school.\u00a0\u00a0As the husband in a dual career household, Turrill\u00a0shared the child care\u00a0responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Turrill\u2019s work with the League of Women Voters, especially while on the National Board, were products of his educational accomplishments, which influenced much of the projects he pursued with the league. In the early 2000\u2019s, Norman Turrill served\u00a0on the board of the Portland League,\u00a0and in 2008, he was elected as the first (and only) man to serve on the National Board. Much of his work while on the national board involved technology;\u00a0he oversaw the creation of the League\u2019s website and\u00a0developed the<br \/>\n&#8220;League Geeks&#8221; who use\u00a0social media to broaden the League\u2019s membership\u00a0and expand its voter education efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first men to join the League of Women Voters, Turrill\u00a0provides a unique perspective into the organization&#8217;s political work. Born in Hawthorne, California and raised Seattle Washington, Turrill went to Africa with the Peace Corps and then pursued a career as a computer scientist. His involvement with the antiwar movement blossomed into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/norman-turrill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norman Turrill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6791,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonsocialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}